Chapter 421 Phoenix

After all, Gao Yuanyuan finally agreed.

Zhang Chaoyang was very happy, so he warmly invited and said: "Xiao Zhou, why don't you go with me? I called your Ren Yingying, and I just went to the District of Columbia to see. There is a cherry blossom festival, which is said to be more beautiful than Japan. And Natural history museums and aviation and aerospace museums need scenery with scenery, and humanities with humanities."

"Ren Yingying?"

Gao Yuanyuan's eyes flickered, and she felt that Lao Zhang's tone didn't sound like a normal person's name.

Zhou Buqi said angrily: "Don't mess with mandarin ducks!"

Zhang Chaoyang waved his hand, "Okay, don't pretend. I've already asked someone to pass on the message. Ren Yingying also said it, and I'm looking forward to getting to know Boss Zhou."

"Don't make trouble!"

"What's the trouble? To tell you the truth, don't you also have business in the United States? When we are busy, we can let them go shopping. "

Gao Yuanyuan was surprised and said, "Ren... Do I know this Miss Ren?"

Zhang Chaoyang glanced at her, half-jokingly said: "It's not from the same era, you are Zhou Zhiruo, and she is Ren Yingying."

Gao Yuanyuan understood, and was pleasantly surprised, "Is she also an actress? The actor who played Ren Yingying?"

"right."

"Yuan Yongyi or Xu Qing?"

"Okay, there's no shadow! Don't disturb your two-person world!"

Before Zhang Chaoyang could respond, Zhou Buqi waved his hand, got up and left, looking a bit embarrassed. Walking to the door, he suddenly turned around and asked with concern: "Old Zhang, after Li Shanyou's resignation, it won't have much impact on Sohu's business, right?"

Zhang Chaoyang said: "There must be influence. We are competing to become the exclusive video broadcast platform for the World Cup in Germany, and he is in charge. After he left, this stall was almost ruined."

"solved?"

"Well, Gong Yu was promoted to senior vice president, he took the task and did a good job."

"Miyayu..."

Zhou Buqi sighed a little.

Sure enough, it is a big company with a lot of talents!

This Gong Yu was the one who left and founded iQiyi later.

At the same time, I became more and more indignant, thinking that Sohu has such a good foundation and so many excellent talents, but it ended up running into an incomprehensible boss, what can I do? Of course, they left their jobs one after another to find another job.

Zhou Buqi said with concern: "Old Zhang, the loss of Sohu's executives in the past two years is quite serious!"

Zhang Chaoyang smiled plainly, "Everyone has his own ambitions, it's a trivial matter."

"Are there any executives who are leaving recently?"

"no, what happened?"

Zhou Buqi said calmly, "It's okay, I'm not worried about affecting Sohu's business development."

Zhang Chaoyang said lightly: "As long as I'm here, Sohu will be fine without anyone!"

Confident and powerful.

Gao Yuanyuan's eyes changed, adored and fascinated.

Zhou Buqi smiled, turned and left.

I wanted to chat with Lao Zhang a little more, but the timing was wrong and it was not good to be a light bulb.

Going down the stairs, Zhou Buqi secretly sighed.

He wants to recruit another capable executive who is familiar with the Internet business to serve as the senior vice president and have an additional perspective on business. It can also share He Yang's heavy work.

Who can I turn to?

The bosses of companies such as Sohu, Baidu, Dangdang, and Ali have a good relationship. Going directly to dig out their competent subordinates is a bit embarrassing.

As for companies such as Netease, Ali, and Penguin, they are all in other places.

I don't know the place of life well, who knows who is capable and who has a good reputation?

To poach executives, unless the other party is a well-known professional manager in the industry, headhunting alone is unreliable. It must be recommended by the most trusted person. The big boss interviews in person, talks for several days and nights, and understands the other party's ideological structure, cultivation level, etc., and needs to be synchronized and complementary to each other.

This is the disadvantage of Ziweixing's lack of financing.

If it has raised funds, then Ziweixing’s troubles of lack of people can be directly handed over to investors.

Many venture capital institutions have invested in dozens or hundreds of related companies, which means that they have thousands of senior executives, all of whom have established files and records.

Company A is not developing well, but there are two vice presidents with excellent abilities. Through the relationship of capital, these two people can be recommended to companies B, C, D, etc. that are developing well but are in urgent need of talents.

This is the integration of human resources.

The more powerful the venture capital, the more complex the network and the stronger the integration ability.

Back in the office, Zhou Buqi called Liu Qing.

She seemed a little busy, and hung up after saying a few words.

Then, CTO Cheng Binghao knocked on the door and came to the office.

After completing the holding and financing of UC, Ziweixing also began to secretly operate the browser project.

Don't rush to go online, just look at the market first.

Because the technology is relatively complicated, Cheng Binghao is in charge of it himself.

He said that Ziwei Star now has fewer people, and the speed of recruitment can't keep up with the speed of development. There is simply not enough manpower to set up another browser team.

However, there is no other way.

"found it!"

"oh?"

"Two years ago, two computer students made a browser for the IE engine called Window of the World. The market response was pretty good, and then they established their own studio last year, recruiting five or six Individual, focusing on the development of domestic browsers."

"What is it?"

"Phoenix Studio."

Zhou Buqi's eyes lit up, and he was pleasantly surprised: "You mean we just buy this studio?"

Cheng Binghao said: "Yesterday, I made a special trip that day and felt it was necessary. The team is very young, energetic, motivated, and very focused."

Acquisition is a necessary way for a company to develop rapidly.

Many times, acquiring a company does not mean acquiring their business, but rather acquiring a mature team. This is much easier than recruiting, and you don't need to adjust and adapt, just get started and use it.

If it is possible to acquire a mature team and a promising business, the best of both worlds, then it is an acquisition case that can be included in textbooks.

Cheng Binghao went on to say: "Window of the World version 1.0 has a lot of problems, and there are often situations of suspended animation. When I went there, I found that they had overturned all the codes of version 1.0, and they are rewriting, and each function must be arranged more reasonably. needs, to facilitate further function expansion and performance optimization. And... By the way, IE is going to launch a new 7.0 version of the browser, which will support multi-threaded tasks. Their team has big ambitions, and they want to be in the 2.0 version of Window of the World , and also adopts a multi-threaded window framework, which greatly reduces the situation that the entire browser freezes due to the freeze of a page. And to a certain extent, it improves the opening speed of the webpage."

"How much is installed?"

"Over five million."

"so much?"

"Yes, besides the browser, Phoenix Studio has another product, which is also what we need."

"What is it?"

"Online dictionary, they call it "Plum Blossom Bilingual Dictionary."

Zhou Buqi asked: "Like the "Kingsoft PowerWord"?"

Cheng Binghao said: "Yes, but Jinshan Dictionary covers a lot of areas. In addition to English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, etc. are more comprehensive. Plum Blossom Dictionary is relatively simple, only English-Chinese and Chinese-Chinese translation Britain."

This is very important.

The wider the coverage, the larger the installation package. "Kingsoft PowerWord" has an installation package of nearly 200M. This leads users to download this software if they want to use Kingsoft Dictionary.

This will make the computer bloated, which is very unfriendly to some low-performance computers, and many people will not use them.

If it is only English to Chinese and Chinese to English...it will be much easier,

"How big is the installation package of Plum Blossom Dictionary?"

"No more than 1M."

Zhou Buqi narrowed his eyes, "That is to say, the Plum Blossom Dictionary does not require additional download and installation, and can be directly integrated into the software manager of Weidian Security Guard?"

Cheng Binghao smiled, "Yes, but it's a small function. The main thing is the browser, which is pretty good."

Zhou Buqi said: "Don't worry about the browsers, let them do it first, make the product perfect, and solve all the loopholes internally first. In addition, integrate the micro dot network shield into the browser. Next year, we will launch our The micro-point browser. However, the micro-point dictionary can be launched soon, and college students still need it.”

"Then buy it?"

"Um."

"I don't think the acquisition will be too easy, at least it will cost several million."

Spending several million to acquire a small studio composed of seven or eight young people does seem a bit high.

Zhou Buqi waved his hand, "Let Wang Haoyang talk! This case must be negotiated! I want to improve efficiency, but also want to develop stably. How can it be possible without spending more money?"

In a few words, an acquisition was decided.

Soon, Liu Qing called, "I was in a meeting just now, what's the matter?"

"I'm short of people, please help me."

"Didn't I just say that it will take more than a month for me to resign at the earliest. My resignation application has been submitted, and the company has agreed. I must finish the last bit of work in my hand, right? I will make a mess for my old employer. Who is it?"

"What are you in a hurry for? That's not what I mean."

Liu Qing asked strangely: "Then what do you want me to do?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Aren't you the head of the investment department of Goldman Sachs Asia? You must have participated in many projects, right?"

"One or two hundred."

"What about the Internet?"

"Forty or fifty, what's the matter?"

Zhou Buqi said: "I need to recruit a strong executive who can help me control the overall situation."

Liu Qing asked in surprise: "He Yang can't do it? Zhou Buqi, you are too demanding, right? He Yang has been with my dad for more than ten years, like a personal disciple."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "Of course He Yang has no choice. He has managed the company in an orderly manner in less than two months since joining the company. This management ability is amazing. At least 70% to 80% of the true inheritance of Boss Liu has been obtained."

"Then what do you mean?"

"He Yang used to be in Lenovo, engaged in human resources, management training, market planning, etc., of course he is outstanding in these areas. But he has no experience in Internet companies, and he has shortcomings in specific business processing. .”

"You want to hire a vice president of business to assist him?"

Zhou Buqi smiled, "Yes! That's what it means!"

Liu Qing snorted softly, "Aren't you going too far? I'm a member of Goldman Sachs now, and I haven't joined the job yet, so I want to squeeze me... Well, okay, I'll look back, I have something to do, I won't talk to you said goodbye."

The blind tone of "beep" came from the phone.

Zhou Buqi smiled with satisfaction.

I feel that the original trip to the United States really paid off a lot!

Are you from Goldman Sachs?

snort!

More mine!